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'Mafia art collection' on display in southern Italy

It is no ordinary exhibition…because the precious paintings featured all belonged to an art-loving mobster!

Italy

Italy: 'FBI join police' in 'Ndrangheta crackdown

More than 30 people have been arrested in a probe into the business interests of the ‘Ndrangheta, the organised crime group based in the southern Calabria region of…

Italy

Calabria mayor among 14 held in Italy anti-mafia sting

Police in southern Italy have arrested 14 people in an operation against the organised crime network the “Ndrangheta.

Italy

'Cultivated' mafia boss is arrested in southern Italy

A fugitive mafia boss with an apparent liking for high-brow literature was captured in southern Italy on Thursday after six years on the run.

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Cinema

Ben Affleck's autistic Accountant tops box office

Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff in ‘The Accountant’, an autistic math savant who serves some of the world’s most dangerous crime lords undercover as a trained…

Italy

[Pictures] Italian officials support each other in lonely stand against mafia

They are mayors. They took a stand against the mafia and are now threatened.

World News

Dozens of suspected Mafia members arrested in busts across the eastern US

Extortion, loan sharking, smuggling, arson and gun trafficking are just some of the crimes dozens of suspected Mafia members have been charged with by US police.

Italy

Multiple arrests in anti-Ndrangheta operation

Romania

Romanian police break up "slavery" gang rescuing dozens of youngsters

Anti-mafia police have broken up a human trafficking gang in central Romania.

Italy

Sicilian mafia boss dies in Milan hospital

Italian mafia boss Bernardo “The Tractor” Provenzano – so named because of his habit of mowing enemies down – has died at a Milan hospital.

Italy

Eleven arrested for getting fat on fraud at Milan's 2015 Food Expo

Milan’s Universal Expo 2015 was themed around food, and now it seems plenty filled their plates with lavish kickbacks, tax fraud, money laundering and criminal…

Italy

Italian mafia boss captured in mountain village

Italy’s second biggest mafia boss has been arrested in Molochia, a small town in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria.

Cinema

'Suburra' - Rome bathed in corruption and decadence

The Italian film noir ‘Suburra’ centres on the murky connections between organised crime and politics in Rome.

Italy

Italian paramilitary police arrest 109 suspected Mafia members

A night time anti-Mafia operation in eastern Sicily has resulted in the arrests of 109 people. Those detained are suspected members of the Laudani

Italy

Sporting Lorci five-a-side team quits after mafia-style threats

High-ranking five-a-side football team Sporting Locri is quitting the game after a series of threats made against the club’s president and his

Italy

Italian police bust major cocaine smuggling ring

Finance police in Italy say a 130 kg of cocaine have been seized in Venice, busting a major drug smuggling ring. Nine people were arrested as part of

Italy

Mafia Capital trial opens in Rome

Former neo-fascist gangster Massimo Caminati is among those on trial for corruption.

Cinema

Denis Villeneuve's 'Sicario' explores vicious cycle of evil

‘Sicario’ explores the violence of the Mexican drug cartels and the equally brutal response of the United States’ authorities. Directed by

Italy

Vittorio Casamonica's mafia-style funeral raises eyebrows in Rome

Questions are bring asked about why a lavish funeral for Vittorio Casamonica, a purported Italian crime boss, was allowed through the streets of Rome

Italy

Rome becomes like 'Godfather' set for 'crime boss' showbiz funeral

A brass band played music from “The Godfather” movie at the funeral of purported Italian crime boss Vittorio Casamonica on Thursday (August 21). His